Jack Thurston
@jackthurston.bsky.social
Unserious cyclist.
Writer, podcaster, snapper, trespasser. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. PBP2023 finisher.
Insta: _lostlanes
Writer, podcaster, snapper, trespasser. #LostLanes books, Slow Cycling films on GCN+, The Bike Show podcast. PBP2023 finisher.
Insta: _lostlanes
Well this is exciting. And unnerving as the book's still not quite finished. But very much on track for publication in Spring 2026.
Always judge a book by its cover, especially when it's by the brilliant Andrew Pavitt! #lostlanes #lostlanesscotland
Always judge a book by its cover, especially when it's by the brilliant Andrew Pavitt! #lostlanes #lostlanesscotland
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Well this is exciting. And unnerving as the book's still not quite finished. But very much on track for publication in Spring 2026.
Always judge a book by its cover, especially when it's by the brilliant Andrew Pavitt! #lostlanes #lostlanesscotland
Always judge a book by its cover, especially when it's by the brilliant Andrew Pavitt! #lostlanes #lostlanesscotland
This debate needs more light and less heat. Some useful analysis in the HoC library briefing note on asylum policy, including a data vis of where those granted asylum in the past decades have come from. Am sure not new to you but I thought it illuminating. Be interesting to see one on returns.
November 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This debate needs more light and less heat. Some useful analysis in the HoC library briefing note on asylum policy, including a data vis of where those granted asylum in the past decades have come from. Am sure not new to you but I thought it illuminating. Be interesting to see one on returns.
Quite an impressive data visualisation on where refugees settled in the UK since 1989 came from. Part of the House of Commons Library briefing note on asylum policy. Link: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...
November 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quite an impressive data visualisation on where refugees settled in the UK since 1989 came from. Part of the House of Commons Library briefing note on asylum policy. Link: researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN...
All the routes from #LostLanesScotland on a single, basically incomprehensible, elevation chart.
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
All the routes from #LostLanesScotland on a single, basically incomprehensible, elevation chart.
If Scottish government bonds are going to be known as ‘kilts’ then when the Welsh government issues debt the bonds should be called ‘quilts’. You heard it here first, folks.
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If Scottish government bonds are going to be known as ‘kilts’ then when the Welsh government issues debt the bonds should be called ‘quilts’. You heard it here first, folks.
I know the feeling
November 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I know the feeling
Can you name all four members of what would have been quite the supergroup?
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Can you name all four members of what would have been quite the supergroup?
Enjoyable evening in Bristol with @annacycles.bsky.social and a select crowd. End to End touring tales remembering the late great @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social and veering into cycling & mental health. Never a bad day on the bike, as Tim would say.
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Enjoyable evening in Bristol with @annacycles.bsky.social and a select crowd. End to End touring tales remembering the late great @timcyclesthecoast.bsky.social and veering into cycling & mental health. Never a bad day on the bike, as Tim would say.
I’ve become that sort of mid-life cyclist who already has (or has had) all the normal bikes and is now only interested in the freak ones. N+2 collected today. How long before I’m sniffing around recumbents?
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’ve become that sort of mid-life cyclist who already has (or has had) all the normal bikes and is now only interested in the freak ones. N+2 collected today. How long before I’m sniffing around recumbents?
That’s a wrap! A fitting scene to end the last recce ride for #LostLanesScotland. By far the most challenging and rewarding Lost Lanes book to research. Book will be out next spring 🫰🏴🚲Now off to have some bevvies in Glasgow. 🍻
September 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
That’s a wrap! A fitting scene to end the last recce ride for #LostLanesScotland. By far the most challenging and rewarding Lost Lanes book to research. Book will be out next spring 🫰🏴🚲Now off to have some bevvies in Glasgow. 🍻
My bike, on a bus! Good work, Border Buses. (This is the X95, Carlisle - Edinburgh, though I hopped of at Canonbie and rode to Hawick where I am now)
September 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My bike, on a bus! Good work, Border Buses. (This is the X95, Carlisle - Edinburgh, though I hopped of at Canonbie and rode to Hawick where I am now)
Someday I will buy one bar of all 23 Ritter Sport variants, gather together my 15 favourite people in the world, and together we will determine which one is the best.
September 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Someday I will buy one bar of all 23 Ritter Sport variants, gather together my 15 favourite people in the world, and together we will determine which one is the best.
I too like this way of thinking about solar power v fossil fuels, from @ember-energy.org via @hannahritchie.bsky.social's excellent Substack newsletter.
You could say that wind power is also solar power, as it's the sun that powers the wind, via uneven heating of the earth's surface, right?
You could say that wind power is also solar power, as it's the sun that powers the wind, via uneven heating of the earth's surface, right?
September 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I too like this way of thinking about solar power v fossil fuels, from @ember-energy.org via @hannahritchie.bsky.social's excellent Substack newsletter.
You could say that wind power is also solar power, as it's the sun that powers the wind, via uneven heating of the earth's surface, right?
You could say that wind power is also solar power, as it's the sun that powers the wind, via uneven heating of the earth's surface, right?
Gets his carriage clock tomorrow
September 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Gets his carriage clock tomorrow
Who, where, when and what happened? And why am I posting this today?
September 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Who, where, when and what happened? And why am I posting this today?
The photos in my Lost Lanes books are 10% photography, 90% spending all day outdoors. Had a @quintinlake.bsky.social moment on my last Scottish trip. View from Ardnaneaskan to the Eilean a'Chait lighthouse and Skye. Ten minutes later the storm hit and I was cowering under a tree.
July 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The photos in my Lost Lanes books are 10% photography, 90% spending all day outdoors. Had a @quintinlake.bsky.social moment on my last Scottish trip. View from Ardnaneaskan to the Eilean a'Chait lighthouse and Skye. Ten minutes later the storm hit and I was cowering under a tree.
Is Charles Terront eyeing up a Breton maid or scanning the cemetery for a water tap? Or maybe both?
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Is Charles Terront eyeing up a Breton maid or scanning the cemetery for a water tap? Or maybe both?
Finally snagged a Bike Friday New World Tourist! One of the early editions of this cult classic by the looks of it. Just need a longer stem and seat post.
June 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Finally snagged a Bike Friday New World Tourist! One of the early editions of this cult classic by the looks of it. Just need a longer stem and seat post.
Really looking forward to Ride to the Sun this month. Anyone I know on here also riding?
June 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Really looking forward to Ride to the Sun this month. Anyone I know on here also riding?
I was at Whiteleaf Cross at the weekend (Lost Lanes research with bike and drone). Quite an odd one that. Concorde for the Pope.
June 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I was at Whiteleaf Cross at the weekend (Lost Lanes research with bike and drone). Quite an odd one that. Concorde for the Pope.
In French road signs = diversion, detour. Deviant is where it gets murky as there’s a moral judgement component.
June 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In French road signs = diversion, detour. Deviant is where it gets murky as there’s a moral judgement component.
HS2 near Wendover revealing what lies beneath in the Chilterns. Chalk chalk chalk!
June 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
HS2 near Wendover revealing what lies beneath in the Chilterns. Chalk chalk chalk!